ExpertIO About the Founder

About the Founder

Craig Stoops has 20 years of experience designing high speed I/O ASICs and processor chips for leading industry companies. Craig spent the first 14 years of his industry career with IBM, designing RISC System 6000 processors and I/O subsystems. At IBM he was also highly involved in setting up ASIC design methodologies. He was the verification lead of one processor chipset.

He architected and designed for IBM the first Gigabit per second I/O adapter implemented on a workstation class machine, as well as the design of several other storage and networking Host Bus Adapters, including Fibre Channel. He was one of the IBM representatives to the Fibre Channel Interoperability Association.

After leaving IBM in 1997, Craig has worked for several start-up companies in the Storage Area Network (SAN), WAN, and Video on Demand markets where he architected, designed and verified numerous high performance (up to 16Gbit/sec) ASICs, FPGAs, and complete systems including:


	•	System to transport Motion Picture quality video over ATM
	•	3 generations of Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBA)
	•	Architecture and design of Packet Processing Engines
	•	Video on Demand system supplying 500 MPEG2 streams per enclosure
	•	16Gb/s networking SPI4.2 crossbar switch chip

Craig is the founder and lead consultant for ExpertIO, a consulting company specializing in I/O protocols such as Fibre Channel, SPI4.2, Serial ATA, Serial SCSI, RapidIO, PCIX / PCI Express, and Infiniband. Expert IO offers chip / system architecture, design, and verification services.